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Inexpensive Creep Feeder
"I wanted to save some money and use equipment I already had. That's why I turned a covered gravity grain wagon and a few gates into a creep feeder," says Joe Mattingly, Raywick, Ky.
By attaching two gates and a sorting panel to the wagon and blocking off the grain chute with a 4 by 4, calves have access to feed
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Inexpensive Creep Feeder LIVESTOCK Feeding Equipment 30-4-33 "I wanted to save some money and use equipment I already had. That's why I turned a covered gravity grain wagon and a few gates into a creep feeder," says Joe Mattingly, Raywick, Ky.
By attaching two gates and a sorting panel to the wagon and blocking off the grain chute with a 4 by 4, calves have access to feed while the mothers don't.
Mattingly says this setup does the work of a $2,500 creep feeder.
"It's an economical way to add pounds of beef," he says.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Joe Paul Mattingly, 830 Sally Ray Pike, Raywick, Ky. 40060 (ph 270 692-6730; lumattingly @yahoo.com).
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